the survivors founded a new town (today “Naso”), on a fortified hill [...]" [17]. The Norman Period In Norman times, the name appears in the 11th century (in 1082) as "Nasa". In the document the Count Roger (1031-1101) gave some property to the Church of Traina, including "Nasa": “I gave and grant the Church of Traina...the names of towns and castles are these: Messana, Raymecla, Milatium, Tauromeuium, Militellum, Synagra, Ficarra, Fetelia, Nasa, Sanagia, Galath" [19]. The name "Nasa" appears again in 1094 when Count Roger gave half of the castle called 'Nasa' to the Abbey of St. Bartholomew: "I Roger give the monastery of St. Bartholomew situated in Lipari, headed by the Venerable Abbot Ambrose, the Castle called 'Tatalia' with all its appurtenances and half of the castle called 'Nasa' with all its appurtenances and a hundred peasants" [20]. Then the town was granted to the Barresi (1134), and then it was ruled by numerous powerful feudal families such as the Alagona. Entering the Middle Ages in Naso - a time of many owners! Buttà wrote that "[…] Naso suffered a lot for the baronial domain." In fact, the history of Naso was characterized by tumultuous events, which were summarized briefly but effectively in the 19th century by V. Castelli, who wrote that: "[...] The County of Naso was governed in 1112 by Goffredo di Naso, and before 1094 by the Diocese of Patti. Goffredo di Naso was succeeded by Gualtieri di Guantes, and then by Abbo Barresi. Giovanni Barresi, partisan of the Anjou, was stripped of it by King Frederick II of Aragon (1272-1337), who gave it to Filianello Pisano, and then to Blasco of Alagona (died 1355), his Lieutenant General. Naso fell into the hands of King Louis of Naples (1320-1362) in 1350 and it was granted to Nicholas Cesareo. King Martin I (1376-1409) in 1392 invested it in Bartolomeo d'Alagona, Count of Cammarata. It then passed into the hands of Raymond de Xamar, the Royal Chamberlain to King Martin (…) King Alfonso (1396-1458) gave it to Bernard Centelles in 1406. During the centuries it has belonged to different feudatories: Blascos, Artale Alagona, Cadornas, Aragonas and Ventimiglias who made of it a county in 1572. It entered then into the possession of Francis Starrabba in 1589, giving in exchange to the Ventimiglia the fiefs of Regiovanni on October 17, 1583. It was then purchased by Carlo Ventimiglia Marquis